Keynote Speaker Global Arts Festival
Professor Emeritus Kofi Agawu
Kofi was born in Ghana, where he received his initial education before studying composition and analysis in the UK and musicology in the US. He is currently Distinguished Professor at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. His books include Playing with Signs (1991), African Rhythm (1996), Music as Discourse (2008), and The African Imagination in Music (2016). He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship (1991), the Dent Medal (1992), the Harrison Medal from the Society for Musicology in Ireland (2009), the IMS Guido Adler Prize (2023), and honorary degrees from Stellenbosch University (2017) and Bard College (2019). A Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences, he is also Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy and Honorary Member of the Royal Musical Association. A collection of essays, On African Music: Techniques, Influences, Scholarship, was published in June 2023 by Oxford University Press.
Thursday, April 4, 2024
11:00 AM-12:20 PM
Interdisciplinary and New Perspectives in Performing and Visualizing the Arts: Theory, Practice, and Research
Thursday, April 4, 2024
11:00 AM-12:20 PM
Schoonover Center 145, Scripps College of Communication